I posted here the other day about UPenn as well, which is my favorite school. I didn’t get many good results back (both accounts were a day old that responded), so if you’d like to answer for that school as well early decision is at about 24% and that’s what I’d go for.
But I’m here about the UW as a fallback safe school. I really like the campus, the student body, the location, and the quality of education. It is far away though and I tend to lean more towards selective schools if I can, which is why it’s my fallback. The acceptance rate is 55%. From here the post is just a copy and paste of my other post.
I took all higher level classes available (100 vs 200), did AP Gov, macro, micro, comparative gov, psych, lit/comp, and stats. Average score was a 4.
Competed nationally in We The People (team didn’t make top ten though), member of model UN for three years, website placed third in the State History Day competition, and was honored at a school event on separate years as the best student in Japanese and for We The People.
Outside of school I held a basic job in a supermarket, volunteered at the local library for three years, and was a “unified partner” with the youth special olympics. Some extra stuff that may or may not matter is that I play guitar, map for video games in some free time, and trade stocks casually (started at age 13).
GPA is maybe 3.8-4.0 (unweighted), my school doesn’t tell you. I think my number grade averages 95ish (unweighted).
I think I am/ was my English/Gov teachers’ favorite student so I’m sure they’ll be writing good recommendations.
I don’t have my SAT or ACT scores available yet. I think ACT will probably come back as 30-33 and I don’t really know about the SAT.
Thanks everybody!